Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-26

Joseph Brlnker, agent of the Denve
and Rio Grande Western at this station
went to Salt Lake yesterday.
There are about 200 passengers coming
IN from the West almost every forenoon
They branch off from here eastward ovel
the Union Pacific and Denver and Rio
Grande roads in nearly equal divisions
the former getting most of the emigrants
the latter enjoying little the preference
OF first-class passengers, owing to the pic
turesqueness of the route.
On Monday afternoon Thos. Purdy re.
ported the finding of a female infant
corpse on Eighth street, near the depot
in lucern patch. The Marshal secured
the remains of the unfortunate victim OF
an unnatural mothers heartlessness. A
Coroner's inquest was held in the even
ing. The police are carefully looking in
to the matter.
There is a new development in the
Keystone-Kelly family tragic comedy.
g friend" paid the balance of Emma's
fine on Saturday, on which she was re-
leased. On Sunday Keyson secured the
two-year-old baby of the ill-assorted
couple, to the mothers violent indigna-
ton. Justice Dee could do nothing for
her, however.
A miner from Park City, by the name
of Christensen, is in the hills and can
yons around Ogden, having firm conf
dence that ne is going to "strike it rich"
in some precious mineral.
Tom DenahY, we'll known in the sport
ing fraternity, has returned to Ogden
from Nevada.
Lower Fourth street is now getting the
benefit of the gravel tramway, and is
greatly improved.
The committee on railroad traffic, etc.,
(F. j. Keisel, chairman met last even
ing, and will report progress to the Board
of Directors of the Chamber of Com
merce, this evening.
All loyal-iGtentioned citizens, civilians
no less than military men, are invited to
attend the meeting of the g. A. R. Post
in the Methodist church on Wednesday
evening, the 9th, when the birthday of
the never-to-b e-forgotten Ulysses S. Grant
will be commemorated by fitting and stir
ring addresses from Rev. Jayne, Captain
Smith, General Kimball and Judge Hen
derson
Don p. Cushman, until a few days ago
manager of the Broom Hotel, has gone
to Salt Lake City, where he will look
around for few days.
Thos. Hunt, from Pennington, was in
town Yesterday and to-day, the guest of
his old friend John j. Fry.
The Wheatstone instrument is being |
put in operation at the Western Union !
Telegraph Office.
The Woman's Relief Corps held its |
regular semi-monthly meeting this after
noon, beginning at l o'clock At the |
close of the business transactions, there |
was a very cordial reception of the loyal |
ladies of Ogden, the pleasure of which
was substantially intensified by copious
lunch.
The City Council meets again in regu
lar session on Friday afternoon, when it
is quite probable that some important
steps on the road to progress will be
taken.
John @. Leavitt, former Utah Central
roadmaster, now a big rancher in Juab
land, has been visiting his friends in
town.
S. R. Gwin, leading stock man of
Cassia county, Idaho, is at the Chapman
House with his wife.
There were 100 children at the Baptist
Sunday school on the oath.
James M. Pierce, weIl-known cattle
monarch, has come down from his
ranches in Idaho. He reports deep
SHOWS in the neighborhood of Soda
Springs. He returns to Kelton shortly.
How is it that the Rocky Mountain
Circuit has set no spring meeting at
Ogden with its central location, numerous
horsemen, fine stock and excellent race
track, while Cheyenne, Bellevue and
and other far inferior places will be Wis
tied? Thus our owners of good horses
will have to go to Salt Lake City, where
races take place from the 2lst to the 25th.
Whose fault is this neglect OF the Junction
city? Don't all answer at once.
On Sunday night II. M. Ogden, the
electrician, came down from the north
after an extensive trip in Dakota and Mon
lana, in which Territories he has sue
ceeded in establishing several companies
and plants of the Thompson-Houston
electric light He also experimental
with Dakota billiards., by which he was
no less electrified than enlightened.
w. W. Corey has left on another bust
ness trip to Cheyenne. The Coreys 60,
the Coreys come, and contracts 60 on for
ever.
There is considerable indignation
among peaceful citizens about the bolster
GUS gatherings of boys on street corners.
on Sunday afternoons and :
evenings, when the Sabbath (here in {
"Zion!'') is disgracefully desecrated.
The new fiscal arrangements in the ]
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints have already had the effect of de-
priving some members of the leading